Top 100 Tupac's Quotes

#1. It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #9918
#2. I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #38936
#3. I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.

Shy Glizzy

Tupac's Quotes #50489
#4. Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #54100
#5. The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #96472
#6. It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #101954
#7. When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah ... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #112389
#8. It's hard to care when no one loves you.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #135195
#9. There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #178534
#10. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #194386
#11. There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #206325
#12. Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #211593
#13. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #258871
#14. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #259226
#15. There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #282676
#16. I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #307229
#17. One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

J. Cole

Tupac's Quotes #332305
#18. I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"

Spencer Pratt

Tupac's Quotes #332323
#19. I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

Trent Reznor

Tupac's Quotes #333818
#20. Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #371945
#21. The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it's planted in stone

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #392945
#22. Though things change, the future's still inside of me.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #396270
#23. I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #425974
#24. Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #489040
#25. It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #496342
#26. That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #524553
#27. It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #544684
#28. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #596056
#29. When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #597899
#30. As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko

Tupac's Quotes #613713
#31. How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #623617
#32. I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #628718
#33. Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #629629
#34. Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #646176
#35. If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #650065
#36. Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #656448
#37. There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #662889
#38. I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #669087
#39. There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.

Marco Rubio

Tupac's Quotes #683528
#40. Everybody's at war with different things ... I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #724564
#41. It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #725892
#42. I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #745717
#43. Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #764449
#44. The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #765829
#45. It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #768272
#46. Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #776715
#47. I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #793324
#48. I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Shameik Moore

Tupac's Quotes #812014
#49. I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #840547
#50. I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.

ASAP Rocky

Tupac's Quotes #854631
#51. Things change that's the way it is.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #859908
#52. I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #864596
#53. If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #866597
#54. Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good,
Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods.
Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook,
Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke ...

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #869107
#55. I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #885539
#56. Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing ... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #898065
#57. And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #984140
#58. No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #987665
#59. Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1003785
#60. I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1031016
#61. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1063780
#62. In the world that came after this one, I was sure she had a grin on her face while she hung out with Tupac and Nemo's mom.

Brittainy C. Cherry

Tupac's Quotes #1085074
#63. I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1090757
#64. Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1103386
#65. If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1123133
#66. It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1178394
#67. Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1181293
#68. I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1233539
#69. Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1243835
#70. Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1255857
#71. Love IS the People's Power

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1259487
#72. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1261305
#73. Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1274899
#74. Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1293339
#75. It's just me against the world.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1312589
#76. Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance ...

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1321087
#77. Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1343926
#78. I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1357087
#79. Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1364428
#80. Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in ...

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1390433
#81. I was raised in the city, shitty
Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty
Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty
And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,
And drinking liquor til' you out cold

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1419203
#82. My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1429251
#83. Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1441641
#84. I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.

Stephanie Mills

Tupac's Quotes #1479122
#85. Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1517373
#86. Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1527824
#87. It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1530083
#88. Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1544841
#89. It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1549055
#90. Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1585293
#91. My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1601534
#92. I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1615469
#93. I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up ... and handle it.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1630806
#94. They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1649565
#95. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1650175
#96. Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1667871
#97. I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1672779
#98. Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1678266
#99. Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1678900
#100. Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

Tupac Shakur

Tupac's Quotes #1685777

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